When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
SOCRATESTo move the world we must move ourselves.
More Socrates Quotes
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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